: We changed our domain a year ago to .com but old site is still number one when searching I changed our companies domain name a year ago from radfan.co.uk to radfan.com. When typing radfan
I changed our companies domain name a year ago from radfan.co.uk to radfan.com. When typing radfan into Google the number one result is still radfan.co.uk rather than the .com. This is not the case for Bing and Yahoo.
This is the .htaccess rule I have used
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^radfan.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.radfan.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://www.radfan.com/" [R=301,L]
Is there something else I need to do?
UPDATE:
Turns out if I search for radfan.com google finds it but asks if I meant "radfan.co.uk" ...
UPDATE 2:
I moved the domain in January 2012, so 14 months now
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I would think that your results are localized to your country. I am in Canada and when I google "radfan", radfan.com is #2 . #1 is a wikipedia entry, and there are no listings for radfan.co.uk on page one.
I am pretty sure there is nothing better you can do with your rewrite rule.
Alright then, can you please try this instead:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) www.newdomain.com/ [R=301,L]
While replacing www.newdomain.com with www.radfan.com Also, verify that the Apache Mod-Rewrite module is enabled (just to be sure)
And verify also if you still have backlinks pointing to your old domain.
What you did is fine. The search results that you see may appear only to you as part of the personalized search results.
This may be due to your search history settings. Here is a guide on how to disable this feature
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